Bridget is the anglicized form of the Irish name Brighid, which means ‘the exalted one’. In Irish mythology, this was the name of the goddess of fire, poetry and wisdom.
Bridget is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Bridget isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Bridget ranks 578. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 3 were named Bridget. In the entire USA, approximately 86,276 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Bridget. That is 0.03 % of all living Americans.
Bridget is the anglicized form of the Irish name Brighid, which means ‘the exalted one’. In Irish mythology, this was the name of the goddess of fire, poetry and wisdom.
Bridget is a... traditional name in the U.S. and was at its most popular in the 1970s.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Bridget annualy. This means that there have been girls named Bridget who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Bridget have consistently been special. A small flight of popularity was experienced by the name way back in the last century and in one particular year, parents liked Bridget even more than any other time: in 1973, it holds its present record of #110 in the ranking of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Bridget was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Bridget has never been ranked higher than #110. In 2022, she rivaled the 720 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 355 girls named Bridget were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Bridget were born, there have been 1,414 newborns who received this name.
Everyone knows her, everyone loves her and still she’s different from the mainstream: Bridget occurs in every single state of the U.S. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the more than 50,000 different female first names that occur in the USA, just 537 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Bridget is definitely something very special. However, at the same time, since the name does not appear in the top 100 most common first names in any single state, Bridget is not one of those names that one encounters in every neighbourhood, but stands out from the crowd, is noticeable and special without being strange or unknown. From Alaska to Florida, a total of 86,276 women and girls of all generations bear the name Bridget – that is one in 1,787. However, there are considerable regional differences – the name is far more popular than average in Louisiana, where one in 1,018 women and girls is called Bridget, while it is particularly rare in Alaska, where you have to ask an average of 4,051 women for their name to get Bridget as an answer once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: 3.2% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a B. This means that B as the first letter for girls' names is neither particularly common nor rare. The most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With seven letters, the name Bridget has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, if 3.2% of all girls’ names start with a B, this initial letter is slightly less common than all other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with B that are quite common in the U.S., the most common at present is Barbara.
If your name is Bridget and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Bridget, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Rocket
Igloo
Dinosaur
Goat
Elephant
Tiger
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Bridget
Bridget
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Bridget sounds like this:
